BY Vince Cooper AFTER resigning from FIFA in 1919 in protest at Germany, Austria and Hungary being allowed to join, the Home Nations steadfastly...

BY Vince Cooper ‘They never die who live in the hearts they leave behind’ The inscription on John Thomson’s gravestone. Whilst a sunny May 25th 1967...

By Vince Cooper THIS is the heartbreaking and inspirational story of Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Adams. It is a story of love and devotion in the...

THE Chelsea team of the late 1960s and early 1970s was full of great – and big – characters. Peter Osgood bestrode the Kings Road as...

THE PIONEER. THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART THREE BY Vince Cooper AFTER the disasters, both personal and professional, of the 1981-82 season,...

THE PIONEER. THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART TWO BY Vince Cooper BY 1979 Laurie Cunningham’s sparkling form at West Bromwich Albion had played a...

THE PIONEER: THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART 1 BY Vince Cooper IN 1955 19-year-old Mavis Trout left her home in Kingston, Jamaica, leaving her...

A BORN CAPTAIN By Vince Cooper ARSENAL have been blessed with a number of great captains through the years. One of the first, and still regarded a...

BY Vince Cooper THERE have been a number of different Anglo-Italian Cup competitions including, a little confusingly, two at the same time for a...

OLD SCHOOL ANDY; THE ANDY LOCHHEAD STORY BY Vince Cooper It is a well-worn cliche but has to be said. If you needed a photograph to illustrate the...

THIRTY years ago football lost one of it’s finest ‘journeymen’ when Keighley-born Trevor Hockey passed away suddenly from a heart attack at the age...

By Vince Cooper SWANSEA Town Football Club we’re initially formed in 1906 and, without a permanent ground, played matches at various locations...